Putin and Tokayev are meeting on the sidelines of the Russian-Kazakh inter-regional cooperation forum in the Siberian city of Omsk

OMSK, July 25. /TASS/. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that adversaries of both Russia and Ukraine benefit from their conflict.

"[The conflict] needs to be stopped, because what is happening now, is, in my view, beneficial for both Russia’s adversaries and Ukraine’s adversaries," he said.

Putin and Tokayev are meeting on the sidelines of the Russian-Kazakh inter-regional cooperation forum in the Siberian city of Omsk.